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Top 8 Tweets from the Digital Banking Summit

June 11, 2014 12:01 PM

Financial services technologists discussed the innovations and trends transforming the industry at last week's Digital Banking Summit in Los Angeles. Here are eight tweets that capture the key themes from the three-day fintech confab.

Who Needs Branches?

Bill Sullivan, a Capgemini exec, highlights a panelist's point: the need to go somewhere to do business is ever decreasing.

Deposits Are a Snap

U.S. Bank is seeing impressive growth in customers' adoption of mobile deposit and bill payment.

Waving the White Flag

A panelist concedes defeat in the clash between innovation and compliance.

Executive Summary

John Waupsh of BancVue sums up some themes of the conference.

Mystery Shopping

Jim Marous, fintech marketing expert, suggests bankers try Moven, Simple and GoBank to learn more about strong financial-services app features.

Sticky Customers

Wells Fargo's Brett Pitts spoke of how new channels like mobile help increase customer loyalty.

Deeper Ties

A major theme from the summit was that technology can enhance personal relationships.

Keep It Casual

Suits and ties are a turn-off to talented young technologists banks want to recruit, one panelist noted.

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